essay
Country, people, art: the western Aranda 1870-1990
Heritage of Namatjira : the watercolourists of central Australia • Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Published In 1992 • Pages: [23]-62 , [4] of plates
By: Morton, John.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this work Morton outlines the background of Aranda-White contacts in the nineteenth and early twentieth centures in central Australia, particularly stressing the documentation of Aranda life, language, and customs by social scientists and missionaries from the 1860s onward. Morton describes the kinship system and religious beliefs that influenced the Aranda watercolorist Albert Namatjira in his art. The protective role toward the Aranda of the Lutheran Mission at Hermannsburg is also discussed. The brutality of the settlers isolated the Aranda from their land and water supplies and thus caused great hardships to the population.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Representative art
- Kin relationships
- Mythology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aranda
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Australia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1994
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1870-1990
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- western Aranda, central Australia
- NotesAdditional notes
- John Morton
- Not all of the plates mentioned in the text have been included
- Bibliographical references are in document number 47
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aranda (Australian people)